ORIGINAL HAND DRAWN Newspaper: NOV 1872 in pencil E. Stuart Phelps for Sale

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ORIGINAL HAND DRAWN Newspaper: NOV 1872 in pencil E. Stuart Phelps:
$1575.33

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THIS ITEM IS---one of 1 of 11 hand written and hand drawn childrens newspapers, i got them all at the same time from an old paper collector, they are so cool, many with ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, it is truely amazing that these have survived they are dated from October 1872-April of 1878. there are 5 called THE WEST NEWTON MONTHLY from April 1872-May 1873, 4 called THE EVENING LAMP from January-December 1874, and one The Home Circle from April 1878. it looks like the mastermind behind these papers was J.F. Fuller, and the Fuller family was a big family in NEWTON MASS, having a 1000 acre farm in 1644 and built the Fuller Academy built in 1835. I AM LISTING THIS ALL SEPERATE, as they are works of art, the fist of which are done in pencil and stiched together, while the laters ones are done in ink. There are works inside some of these by actual writters, and there is soem art work done by real artist, i will mention them in the individual listings, TRUELY AMAZING.

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vol. I, No.11,1872, all in pencil, from Russell, Fuller & co. Publishers Boston Mass, it says at the top AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE for Boys and Girls---i show all the pages, which are hand stitched together, crazy cool----with--some spotting on the cover, a New Story by Snubs called Mr Vim the Giant Killer, Sympathy a poem by Charlotte F. Bateo, A True Ghost Story by one who knows, The Fisherman by J.F. Browne jr., In the Cars, teh New Moon by Mrs. Fuller, Picture Story (comic), A Trip to New Hampshire (a serial), drawing lessons, The Bee by A.H.M., The Great Woodchuck Society by E. Stuart Phelps (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps) see below for info on her, and then more rebuses, drawings, and more on the back. SO COOL, back page is torn.

the story The Great Woodchuck Society seems to be a shortened version of a stoy she published earlier in the year, she lived in the same town at the time of this hand written publication, very intersting.

here is some info about Elizabeth Stuart Phelps from wikipedia---Elizabeth (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was born in Andover, Massachusetts to American Congregational minister Austin Phelps and Elizabeth (Wooster) Stuart Phelps. Her baptismal name was Mary Gray Phelps, after a close friend of her mother\'s. Her mother, Elizabeth (August 13, 1815—November 30, 1852), wrote the Kitty Brown books under the pen name H. Trusta. Her brother, Moses Stuart Phelps, was born in 1849. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Moses Stuart, the eminent president of Andover Theological Seminary. Her mother was intermittentantly ill for most of her adult life and died of brain fever shortly after the birth of their third child, Amos, on November 20, 1852,[2] Eight year old Mary Gray asked to be renamed in honor of her mother.

Her father Austin Phelps was a widely respected Congregational minister and educator. He was pastor of the Pine Street Congregational Church until 1848, when he accepted a position as the Chair of Rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary. He met Elizabeth Phelps that same year and they were married in the fall. The family moved to Boston and in 1869 he became President of the Andover Theological Seminary, where he served in that role for 10 years. His writings became standard textbooks for Christian theological education and remain in print today.

Two years after her mother\' death, Elizabeth\'s father married her mother\'s sister, Mary Stuart. She was also a writer but died of tuberculosis only 18 months later. Less than six months later her father married Mary Ann Johnson, the sister to a minister, and they had two sons, Francis Johnson (1860) and Edward Johnson (1863).

Phelps received an upper class education, attending the Abbot Academy and Mrs. Edwards\' School for Young Ladies. She had a gift for telling stories as a child. One source noted, \"She spun amazing yarns for the children she played with... and her schoolmates of the time a little farther on talk with vivid interest of the stories she used to improvise for their entertainment. At thirteen, she had a story published in Youth\'s Companion and other stories appeared in Sunday School publications.

In most of her writings she used her mother\'s name \"Elizabeth Stuart Phelps\" as a pseudonym, both before and after her marriage in 1888 to Herbert Dickinson Ward, a journalist seventeen years younger. She also used the pseudonym Mary Adams. She gained recognition early in life from prominent literary figures including Thomas Wentworth Higginson and John Greenleaf Whittier.

At age 19 she sent a Civil War story titled \"A Sacrifice Consumed\" to Harper\'s Magazine. The magazine editor warmly received her contribution and sent her a generous payment along with a note asking her to write for them again. In 1864 Harpers published her first adult fiction. She then began writing her first books for children which became known as the \"Tiny series\". She followed these with the four-volume Gypsy Brenton series, which was later recognized as her best-known juvenile writing. She also published two books that depicted the realistic adventures of a four-year old boy named Trotty, The Trotty Book (1870) and Trotty\'s Wedding Tour, and Story-book (1873). Her story \"The Tenth of January\" appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in March 1868 when she was 24. It was about the death of scores of girls in the Pemberton Mill collapse and fire in Lawrence, Massachusetts on January 10, 1860.

Ward wrote three Spiritualist novels. The first, The Gates Ajar, became her most famous. It took her two years to write. She wrote later that after she spent more than two years revising it, \"I could have said it by heart.\" The book was finally published after the end of the Civil War. In it, she writes about a girl named Mary Cabot, whose brother was killed during the Civil War. The grief-stricken girl becomes convinced that she and her brother will be reunited in an afterlife in which people retain their physical shapes and personalities.

The book became very popular, in part from its positive portrayal of death shortly after the Civil War, during which more than 400,000 individuals lost their lives. It also received a great deal of criticism for the way Phelps depicted heaven as less a place to greet God then to be reunited with loved ones. It rejected the traditional Calvinist view of Heaven. The controversy only stimulated sales, and within a few weeks after its release, her publisher sent her a payment for $600 (about $9,047 in today\'s dollars) and a note, “Your book is moving grandly. It has already reached a sale of 4,000 copies.”

Over 100,000 copies were sold in the United States and England and it was translated and reprinted at least four other languages.

She received thousands of letters in response to the first book. She wrote two more books on the same topic, Between the Gates and Beyond the Gates. She then wrote a novella about animal rights titled Loveliness. Phelps said she wrote The Gates Ajar to comfort a generation of women who were devastated by the losses of their loved ones following the Civil War and who found no comfort in traditional religion. Phelps\' vision of heaven made the book a run-away best seller. She later built on the success of the first Gates book with a series of other books that featured the word \"Gates\" in their titles and which continued to reinforce her views of the afterlife as a place with gardens, comfortable front porches, and finely built houses

While writing these and other popular stories, she became an advocate through her lectures and other work for social reform, temperance, and the women\'s emancipation. She was also involved in clothing reform for women, and in 1874 urged them to burn their corsets.

Burn up the corsets! ... No, nor do you save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded it over your thorax and abdomens for so many years and heave a sigh of relief, for your emancipation I assure you, from this moment has begun.

In 1877 she published a novel, The Story of Avis, that was ahead of its time. The work focuses on many of the early feminist issues of her era. In it she portrayed a woman\'s struggle to balance her married life and associated domestic responsibilities with her passion to become a painter. The protagonist is an independent, extraordinary woman in her time who initially decides her goals will not be constrained by marriage and financial dependence on a husband, although she eventually ends up marrying anyhow. She may have been reflecting her mother\'s life when she described the impossibility of pursuing both her artistic ambitions and adhering to her domestic responsibilities. Elizabeth\'s novel was largely influenced by Elizabeth Barrett Browning\'s Aurora Leigh. Her unfavorable depiction of men\'s and women\'s roles in marriage was controversial.

In 1876 she became the first woman to present a lecture series at Boston University. Her courses were titled \"Representative Modern Fiction.\"

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